James Knott wrote: > John E. Perry wrote: >> Just two problems: first, I took others' advice again to switch from >> Reiser to ext3fs, but my home directory is too big to get onto cd's or >> dvd's, so I now have a system based on ext3fs except for the /home >> directory, which is still Reiser. I'm digging through the home >> directories so I can divide it onto several dvds, but it's going to take >> a while. >> > Since you're blowing away most of the system anyway, why not just create > a new ext3 partition and copy /home to it. Then, when you install the > new system, just mount that ext3 partition as /home. You can use a > rescue CD to create the new partition and copy /home. >
THat's a possibility, but I'm already nervous about monkeying with partitions that have valuable data on them. And the / crash last week reinforces my nervousness. > Incidentally, you may want to invest in an external USB hard drive. > They're cheap these days and can hold a lot of data. I've got one here > that's 160 GB. It currently contains a couple of generations of backup > from two computers. > Hmm. I blew off the tiny, hyperexpensive usb drives a couple of years ago, but haven't looked at them recently. That could work well. I had been reading up on nfs, thinking about connecting it to my laptop and using it to back up my data. I also made a quick try to get ftp working, but didn't succeed immediately, and never got back to it. -- John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
